Two broadband accounts

[GBOBM]

Thanks Graeme
My broadband can be slow loading pages at times so I might give it a whirl and see what happens.

[Sanjøy]

Been using Googles DNS for a while, lots DDoS attacks are just chucking traffic at the DNS servers on these days.

Whats the internet routing table size these days Graeme?

[campbell]

Thanks Graeme. Bulk of your explanation is familiar, but wanted to check detail before I did any tinkering

I remember the heady days of setting up and supporting such stuff for banks of PCs at Logica. Life was much simpler then...

[graeme]

Whats the internet routing table size these days Graeme?

Well, I can get to every internet site, so I assume my router has the routing table for the whole entire internet loaded... lets see, yup, found it:

*/0.0.0.0 -> ppp0

[robin]

LOL. It's a little bigger than that

[graeme]

*adopts philosophical pose* If any one router had a routing table for the whole internet, would it still be the internet?

[robin]

*adopts linguistic pose* Would the internet still be the internet, or would the router still be the internet?

[robin]

Or,

Would the routing table still be the internet?

[robin]

BTW, I suspect Sanjoy is referring to the (e)BGP table in this context. I don't know how big they are, but once upon a time routers ran out of routing table memory and I don't suppose they do any more as memory has grown faster than the number of nodes perceived in the BGP topology and, of course, BGP itself came along; of course the true total number of nodes is much larger, but BGP hides them from you. I think routers running out of routing memory was an OSPF thing ... though never having been involved in internet routing, I don't actually know that OSPF was ever deployed across the internet.

Cheers,
Robin

[Sanjøy]

Okay I should have said bgp table.

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac ... table.html

[tut]

The Internet is such an integral part of life worldwide now, that the collapse of it would probably have more effect than almost any other catastrophe outside of a nuclear war or massive asteroid strike.

Not that we would be able to discuss it of course, or use eBay and Amazon.

tut

[BiggestNizzy]

[campbell]

Inherent design of the Internet, from its inception as the US Miltary DARPAnet, means that collapse is unlikely.

The very topic of routers represents one of its fundamental strengths - an ability to work around failures.

Clever stuff.

[tut]

I watched the whole of the "IT Crowd", funny and clever program.

tut

[campbell]

I watched the whole of the "IT Crowd", funny and clever program.

tut

It's just like that. Really